Betty Benedeadly, Tarantula Hawk, Dandelioness

Betty Benedeadly :

Betty Benedeadly has roamed the American Southwest for years, carving out her unique flavor of psychedelic spaghetti western music. Signed to Desert Records, she serves up instrumental arrangements on her 7-string banjitar, fusing elements of experimental folk, indie bluegrass, surf & roots rock. She is currently touring new album: Groove Psych Twang.Tarantula Hawk:Tarantula Hawk is Dakota, Adel, and a revolving cast of other players, singing Dakota’s songs. Dakota Hall Scott is a songwriter born in Bakersfield, CA and now resides in New Mexico. Scott spent his youth busking with his banjo and saw, hitchhiking and getting swept away in beautiful music, places, and people. It is easy to feel all that life and kindness, in his music and in his presence. Well traveled, a music lover with a giant heart, Scott writes simple folk songs on his guitar, his voice and words are sad, yet strong. Ballads of darker times on top of an often cheerful silver stringed guitar which he flawlessly picks, every note necessary and deliberate, his songs roll like a stream. These are songs that are going to keep you company, just like the friend Dakota Hall Scott is to many folks along his forever tour, or perhaps they’ll remind you of the simple joy of forever rambling alone.

Dandelioness:

Taos-based songwriter Dandelioness is known for her radioactive falsetto and visceral, hypnotizing stage presence. Her achey-hearted americana sensibility mutates into infectious pop riffs, glittering with autotuned vocoder and underscored by spiraling patterns of fingerstyle guitar. Growling, crooning, generally in an outrageous getup, Dandelioness gives a vulnerable and playful show that tilts in the direction of burlesque- in her words, 'reading pages of my diary up here in front of everyone'- and often, inviting the audience to join in. The resulting southwest soft gothic americana witchpop is opening portals to other dimensions in  dive bars across the nation.